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once u get it i can patch to get hpet and rtc and a few things working.

the ati im clueless..

I'll run that late tonight when I get home and get the kids in bed. I'm at work at the moment and I don't have my windows hard drive with me.

My ultimate goal when I started all this was to get Lion working on the laptop. I thought I had to have SL working 10.6.6 or higher. I honestly don't care about getting 10.6.8 working any better, I want to get Lion installed.

I purchased the update via the mac store, created the ###### drive, but i get the same error when trying to launch off the USB Drive. I'll make this it's own thread since the topic is for SL, not Lion.

I've tried everything I can find, from replacing kext on the thumb drive, and even attempting to boot 30 or 40 times with different modifiers, like npci=0x2000, or PCIRootUID=1, or 0... ect. Nothing will get past PCI Configuration Begin.

I'm quite sure it's the same issue that wouldn't allow me to boot in 10.6.6-10.6.8 with out the special Chameleon 2.0 RC5 R748 "ATI Experimental" boot loader.

That bootloader lets me boot SL, I wonder if some how we can disect that to apply it to the latest version of Chameleon that's on the ###### thumb drive?

When I set off to build my “hackintosh” I followed several different guides, none of them seemed to work for my G73JH, though they did get me pointed in the proper direction.

This was my first Mac, and my first Hackintosh build ever, so I had to learn everything from how the OS works, to the termanology. I have no skills at building a hackintosh, I just have patience, and persistence. I applied several methods, and finally came up with a process that worked on my G73JH.

None of this would have been possible without some key people, here is my credit and thanks to those people:
Digital_Dreamer
Sviehweg
JC84
PookyMacMan
Lammy2000 (for my new project M18X)

I am very impressed with the InsanelyMac community, I got SEVERAL pms with suggestions, as well as help. There are other hackintosh communities out there that I never recieved a single reply, nor PM to my issues. I'll leave it nameless, but this guide will only appear on instanelymac, because instanelymac was the community that got me going.

I created a zip of all the files I used except for my SL Retail DVD, and my Lion App install. You’ll need to purchase that yourself.

On your Hackintosh or Mac download digital_dreamers “HackInstaller script package” (v6.55 is what I used for this guide)
Download your Lion 10.7.3 app from the download store, or mount the dmg file.
Inset your 8gb+ jump drive, or external usb drive into a usb slot.
Open “applications -> utilities -> disk utility
Select your disk, and repartition it to Extended (journaled)
Open the HackInstaller Scrpt, and choose your install disk (USB Drive) and then option #15 “Create a boot disk”
Choose option 1) Boot Disk (make sure your lion dmg is mounted or appstore downloaded in the app folder)
It will confirm your USB Device, select it, then choose yes to install the kext it lists above.
Say “NO” on the EFI string, you don’t need to create one.
Say “NO” on the DSDT file, you don’t have to have it at this point.
You can have it copy the Hackinstall folder for you
Once your boot drive is ready, DON’T REBOOT. We need to place 3 additional kext inside the Extra/Extensions folder on the root of your drive.
In your Hackinstaller folder from Digital_Dreamer go to: “kext_10.7” -> Misc_Patches -> repository -> PCI_configuration_begin_hang_fix and copy both of the kext into your Extra/Extensions folder on your usb drive you just created.
You also need PlatformUUID.kext you can find it in my zip file under 10.7.3 -> bootloader -> Extra
After all 3 of those kext have been placed in the E/E folder on the usb drive, reboot and boot from the USB drive.
Your lion installation should finally boot, however you don’t have any mouse and keyboard support. You’ll need external mouse and keys… follow the prompts to install. Make sure to format your drive using the Extended (journaled) option.
Once the installer completes, you can get your trackpad/keyboard/audio/wifi working fairly fast. Using [url=&quot;http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/&quot;]#####[/url] for lion (version 4.3.2 for this tutorial) install Audio VoodooHDA 0.2.1
Install Misc: PS/2 Keyboard/Mice and Trackpad
You need Kext Utility from tonymacx86.com. It’s under the downloads/other community software as well as in my zip file.
Install the Wifi kext from my zip file.
Install Chaemeleon 2.1svn r1925 on the disk you installed Lion on.
Copy the 3 kext to the Extra/Extensions folder of the disk you installed lion on from the extra/extensions folder of your USB Lion Installer drive.
If the Extra/Extensions folder isn’t present on your Lion 10.7.3 install you just made, drag and drop all 3 kext into the Kext Utility to ensure they are properly installed.
Reboot.
You should have a working/rebooting Lion install that still need some minor tweaking, but is stable enough to use on your G73Jh

Things that I still need to get fixed:
Wireless Card requires me to connect it every time I reboot.
Sleep does not work.
External Mic does not work.
HDMI only works if plugged in while machine is off.
Extra Mouse Buttons aren’t mapped yet.
OSX Startup sounds don’t appear to work, not sure if it’s possible, or if other sounds are missing as well. This is my first and only mac. Video audio/sound effects seem to work fine.

If this guide helped you in anyway or you had to tweak it in anyway to get your G73JH working please let us know. Posting your results is the only way to feed the community.